PSA: Battlegrounds are not FPS

imnotanother · June 2017

They are not first person shooters!
They are not ALL a Team Deathmatch.
Domination and Capture the Flag have objectives besides killing players.
Go to Cyrodiil if you want to just gank and kill.
No solo play in BG, it doesn't help.

Add to the list if you want.

YargHound · June 2017

Anytime I bring in a full team it's a 20 minute to an hour wait. Solo is almost instant.

Voxicity · June 2017

Bomb has been planted

Reverb · June 2017

YargHound wrote: »

Anytime I bring in a full team it's a 20 minute to an hour wait. Solo is almost instant.

I don't think he is talking about the queue, since th objectives are specifically mentioned. Even if you queue alone, there's benefit to working with your team to complete the objectives. So many players completely ignore the objectives of the land grab or flag capture games, and charge straight into combat.

IcyDeadPeople · June 2017

imnotanother wrote: »

They are not first person shooters!
They are not ALL a Team Deathmatch.
Domination and Capture the Flag have objectives besides killing players.
Go to Cyrodiil if you want to just gank and kill.
No solo play in BG, it doesn't help.

Unfortunately, BG players are not able to queue specifically for Deathmatch mode. Until this is possible, there will be at least some who just want to get into some fun fights and don't care so much about the score, especially if you end up in Domination mode.

Kay1 · June 2017

I'm already doing enough doing 20-40 kills, you don't expect a mag class to carry the flags right and domination is a TDM with flags so yeah it's important to kill in that mode too.

paulsimonps · June 2017

Kay1 wrote: »

I'm already doing enough doing 20-40 kills, you don't expect a mag class to carry the flags right and domination is a TDM with flags so yeah it's important to kill in that mode too.

I have won a lot of Domination games by having me and my team actively avoid the larger fights between the other two teams and just playing the objectives. Some will say its sneaky and low but hey, I win. But we don't always do that obviously, cause its not always fun, and so there are still plenty of killing. My point is that you can win Domination with Zero kills.

idk · June 2017

IcyDeadPeople wrote: »

imnotanother wrote: »

They are not first person shooters!
They are not ALL a Team Deathmatch.
Domination and Capture the Flag have objectives besides killing players.
Go to Cyrodiil if you want to just gank and kill.
No solo play in BG, it doesn't help.

Unfortunately, BG players are not able to queue specifically for Deathmatch mode. Until this is possible, there will be at least some who just want to get into some fun fights and don't care so much about the score, especially if you end up in Domination mode.

It's doubtful we will ever be able to queue for a specific type of BG. It greatly hinders the queue during slower times and I doubt players wants them queue to be silent even though enough are in queue to form groups.